Hobart Bridge with shipping. M13 

Publisher: Ash Bester, 102 Elizabeth St, Hobart.

Postcard Designer: Unknown

Photographer: Photo by The Mercury newspaper. Photo taken on 13 April 1949, and  published in The Mercury on 14 April, 1949.

Manufacture: Printed in the Ash Bester Studio, at 102 Elizabth St, Hobart. Date of manufacture unknown, but after 14 April, 1949!

Usage: This card is unused.

Ownership: Beechey collection. 

Subject: The photo shows the ship Melbourne Star passing through the Hobart Bridge on 13 April, 1949. The Melbourne Star, the second ship of that name, was built in Belfast in 1948 for the Blue Star Line, as a refrigerated cargo liner. She was  of 13,500 tons and 550 ft (168 m) in length. The Mercury reported that, at the time, she was the largest ship to go through the bridge, which had opened in 1943.